Improvement in muff-and-collar boxes



.1 I HENRY MANNECK.

Improvement in Muff and CoHar Boxes. No.118,866. Patented sa 12,1871,

minesses. ZYZIVGIZZWK Jtlowzey UNITED STATES HENRY MANNEGK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN MUFF-AND-COLLAR BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,866, dated September 12, 1871.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY MANNECK, of the city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented an Improved Fur Muff-and-Gollar Box, of which the following is a specification:

The object of m y invention is to obtain a strong, durable, and cheap fur muff-an dcollar box, which will contain and protect the collar as well as the muff, and will serve as a convenient show-case for the dealer; and it consists in providing the box, in connection with the muff cylinder, with a drawer for the collar; also, in the peculiar construction of the shelf which supports the cylinder, serves as a guide for the drawer, and braces the box; and lastly, in securing the folds of the cylinder together and attaching the same to the box by means of a metallic fastening, all as hereinafter described.

The drawing represents my invention in perspective, a portion of two sides being broken away to show some of its details.

Box A is constructed of pasteboard of ordinary thickness, and is of rectangular shape. Within it a cylinder, B, is placed, of nearly or quite the height of the box, formed of a single piece of board whose ends overlap at K, and are secured to gether and to the box by metallic fasteningf The use of this clinch or fastening f dispenses with the necessity of glue or paste, and enables the workman to make the cylinder and attach it to the box by one and the same operation. It is stamped from a strip of metal and its two ends are turned up to form a U, and are about a halfinch apart. A rectangular piece of pasteboard is folded ends over to form the cylinder, and placed in the box. Two perforations are made through the box-side and the folds of the cylinder, into each of which an end of the clinch is inserted from the outside, and the ends are then bent down and secured by the stroke of a hammer. The two riveted points thus made rigidly secure the cylinder in place in relation to the box and tightly clamp the folded ends of the cylinder, so that glue or paste would be superfluous.

About the upper end of cylinder B a perforated shelf or brace, D, is fitted, whose sides are extended the distance from the shelf to the boxedge. Slide (1 is turned down, as shown in the drawing, to serve as a bearing and guide for drawer 0. Sides d (1 and (Z are turned up and glued to the sides of box A, bracing and strengthening them, and giving them the appearance of double their real thickness. T is the boxtop, of ordinary construction. Drawer 0 is made of pasteboard in the ordinary manner, and adapted to the space provided for it in box A.

I am aware that boxes provided with a cylinder for the muff and a shelf or recess for the collar are not new; but they neither protect the collar as perfectly as the drawer of my box, nor do they afford equal convenience in handling the same. My box, supplied with muff and collar, can be placed, drawer uppermost, upon the dealers shelf, opening outward, and the top being removed the muff and collar can be taken out, inspected, and replaced without injury. Both are perfectly accessible, and the drawer keeps the collar in its folded state and saves it from the rubbing usually consequent upon removing and replacing.

WVhat I claim as my invention is- 1. In a fur mufl and-collar box, a cylinder whose ends are secured together and the same attached to the box by means of the metallic fastenin g having two separated ends, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

2. A box having a drawer and muff-cylinder, in combination with a shelf or brace, D, one of whose extended sides is turned down and the others turned up to the box-edge, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

Signed and witnessed at Washington, D. 0., July 24, 1871.

' HENRY MANN EGK.

Witnesses:

W. A. DANG-ERFIELD, W. H. FINOKEL. 

